Unshelving My Purpose After Years of Neglect
When I was a high school freshman, I approached my English teacher, Mrs. Richard. My appetite for words urged me to ask her where I could buy one of the books we used in class—The American Heritage Dictionary. She looked up from the papers she was grading, red pen in...
Created with a Purpose: Living in the Same
What is purpose? The dictionary says purpose is the reason for which something exists or is done, made, or used; an aim or goal with an intended or desired end or result; determination; resoluteness; to act with intention with an anticipated outcome; the quality of...
Learning and Growing from Grief
Twenty-three years – it seems like it was yesterday. Like I am dreaming. Sometimes the pain of losing her is as fresh as the day she died in my arms. The doctors were telling me I needed to go back to the hospital where I was a patient. They said I needed my rest. I...
And Her Heart Flutters
She wears the fall of life as if it came with no burdens at all, but if you look closely, you can see places where she has weathered many hard winters. Yesterday, her daughter and granddaughter boarded a plane that would take them so far away. If she drove night and...
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